Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-08-18


rounds the Swesrlngen farm is showing
APP this summe in magnificent proper
tions.
General Hugh J. Campbell has accept
ed an invitation to deliver an address a
the September division gathering g
Vermillion.
Captain Tom Mariner, who command!
the steamer Benton, is one OF Yankton's
old-time boarders and be found many
friends here to-day.
A moving machine is at work under
official auspices in the weed patches o.
the old steamboat front. This ia @ gooG
place to use a mower.
A Sioux City man in town to-day said
Yankton will get the Manitoba and the
Illinois Central and ansOmaha conn ec.
ton will come in time.
Omaha parties say that Jay Gould still
has it in his mind to build a railroad
from Omaha to Ysnkton. That's where
he has had it for several years.
The conductors on the Milwaukee line
are to undergo examinations ON the LIST
of September. The veterans have to
take their chances with the raw recruits.
Nothing has been said lately about q
fall fair. 1t reefs with the fsrmers-ii
they want a fair they can have one and
the city will help out largely with the
funds.
The channel which began to rag on
the 4ankton side of the Missouri has de-
generated into a sluggish slough again,
leaving o square cut bar as evidence OF
its efforts to shift its position.
Ysnkton's always popular conductor
George jackson, has made more than a
good salary this summer specializing in
Sioux City real estate. We would oil
like to see jackson rich enough to buy O
railroad OF his own.
This weeks rains have put the stub.
BILE fields in excellent condition for fall
blowing and have done no injury to bar.
vested small grain. They have also fresh
ened up the pasturage and added TO the
fulness of the corn crop.
Frank H~ensohka, the young Bohemian
from Tabor whose foot was ampatated,
died yesterday morning at DemeDde's
hotel. The amputation was made with
hope of arresting lockiaw, which had
set in, but proved of no avail.
Engineer House, formerly connected
with the Union Pacific, will take the
field next week with q working party
and survey a route for the Omaha &
Yankton railroad. Secretary Dillon, OF
the Omaha & Yankton company, will be
In this city the latter part of next week
on an inspection trip.
A Dell Rapids special says: E. a.
Van Antwerp, of Yankton. who has been
10 town for soms days Surveying on
Graves addition, leaves for Eioux Falls
to-day, He returns in two weeks time
toEun out the lines OF some town prop
erty which is likely to be In dispute in
che near future.
There was a skirmish yesterday in the
armory between two bold militiamen.
One was armed with q bottle of ink and
the other with a bayonet and finally the
former prevailed He snointed the
head Of his antagonist from the ink
bottle and it was the kind that turns
to a JET black by exposure.
The second July crop report of the
novo ~ ,oo,a |, .. rs 70 50, N, -,-a
Yankton county as "not reported" 1t
10 better to be not reported than to- be
reported wrong, This is no criticism
upon the immigration Commissioners.
Some of his correspondents were at
fault. a
The United States officers who went
from Yapkton to Deadwood and return
/ ed the other day had only four days
court to compensate them for the jour
ney. Yankton terms of the United
| States court are now said TO be the best
of sny in the territory and she Yankton
terms are very much debilitsted from
their old time lusty proportions. In q
%pecuniary sense they are worth about
one-tenth their former value. Justice
is taking q rest in Dakota,
The United States marshal remarked
last night that q large proportion of the
| school sections OF Dakota are occupied
by trespassers, who not only pasture the
land but in many instances use it TO,
oro,o Nsn,aro,o oohoo1 oaot,onc thu,
used have been abandoned and are
growing up to weeds and becoming every
year less valuable. There is a Lew
against such depredations and
all complaints are referred by the
marshal to the department u justice.
Captain Tom Mariner, who came dow
10 command OF the steamer Benton, says
the track of the Montana division OF the
4 Manitoba has reached Milk river and
grading is nearly completed to the Rrea'
falls. The country is settling with won
derful rapidly and is being developed
rapidly. From one ranch OF Litti,
Muddy Captain Mariner brought 1900
bushels of wheat to Bismarck and tn
same ranchman has thousands of bushel
of Dat which he will sell at the militar!
posts.
Alderman Jacob Brauoh, who returned
last night from the far northwest hai
decided to locate in the Occur d'Alen'
mining country, and will go thither will
his family as soon as the necessary ar
rangements can be completed. MI
Branch is one Of the earliest of the earl,